Supreme Court is asked to bar race-based admissions in Harvard case
Greg Stohr and Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg
Feb. 25, 2021
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Opponents of Harvard College s affirmative action policies asked the Supreme Court to bar colleges from using race as an admissions factor, setting up what could be a defining showdown for higher education and the court s conservative majority.
The appeal by Students for Fair Admissions asks the court to overturn the 2003 ruling that let universities keep using race-conscious admissions to diversify their student bodies. A federal appeals court rejected the group s lawsuit, which contends Harvard is violating federal civil rights laws by intentionally discriminating against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions.